Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations of the Americas have . . . learned from the history of this Hemisphere that unless an insurmountable barrier is imposed to intervention by powerful states in the affairs of weaker states, the rights and liberties of independent...
Standing grim and invincible, the Wigglesworth gate has long been the nemesis of late returning Yardlings. Deaf to their most suppliant pleas, the truculent barrier has continually forced weary revelers to make a long trek through the barren Cambridge wastes to other, more understanding entries to the Yard. Numerous petitions from the Humane Society of Footsore Freshmen, interviews with expensive psychiatrists, and the sight of tiny Yardling bodies freezing in the snow before the merciless gate have all failed to unlock the snaggle-toothed jaws of Wigglesworth...
...Spaniards spent hundreds of millions to fortify Cartagena. Miles of tunnels, ventilated by shafts driven 100 feet through solid rock, served Fort San Felipe's twelve gun emplacements (one named after each apostle). A stone barrier, thrust across one of the two harbor entrances, forced men-of-war into a narrow passage raked by Spanish guns. Cartagena knew what it was to be sacked (e.g., by Drake in 1585, and the French in 1544 and 1697), but in 1741, the fortifications paid off: the Spanish routed a 28,000-man, 186-vessel British fleet thrown at them by Admiral...
...Francisco. Late in 1945 he headed a C.I.O. delegation which visited Moscow and Leningrad. In C.I.O. councils (he has been a top officer for eight years) he is a straight-talking battler against Communist influence in unions, preaches that Communist Party activities in this country are "a major barrier to true American-Russian understanding...
...favorites champed at the barrier, New York's Mayor Bill O'Dwyer rushed up with another dark horse: an international skyscraper city to be built in the midst of Manhattan...